BJP President Rajnath Singh: "This is a people's victory"
The opposition Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has called its predicted landslide win in India's election a "people's victory".
Party president Rajnath Singh said it marked "a new era" for India.
Votes counted so far suggest the BJP is on course for the most resounding victory by any party for 30 years, trouncing the outgoing Congress Party.
After a decade of rule by Congress, the BJP is expected to steer India sharply to the right.
The new prime minister will be Narendra Modi, chief minister of the western state of Gujarat, who is seen as a no-nonsense, can-do leader who stands for development and muscular nationalism, says the BBC's Soutik Biswas.
He campaigned on promises he would revive the country's slowing economic growth. Mr Modi told cheering supporters that the result was a "new chapter" in the history of independent India.
Comment: BJP is the only major Indian political party that came to prominence by polarizing the religious sentiments through inciting the bloodiest communal violence, thus breaking the traditional political policy of Gandhian mantra - "Non Violence" and "secularism". It came to national prominence after spearheading the
demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992, which instantly paralyzed the entire nation along religious lines. Mr. Narendara Modi came to national prominence by inciting and allowing the brutal massacre of
thousands of Muslims in his own state, Gujarat. It's this massacre that made him to lose his
diplomatic visa, effectively making him a sort of a 'terrorist':
In 2005, Modi was denied a diplomatic visa to the United States. In addition, the B-1/B-2 visa that had previously been granted to him was also revoked, under a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act which makes any foreign government official who was responsible or "directly carried out, at any time, particularly severe violations of religious freedom" ineligible for the visa. In July 2013, BJP president Rajnath Singh visited the US and gave a speech urging the US to grant Modi a visa to visit the country. In response to Singh's visit, 65 Members of the Indian parliament allegedly signed a letter to US President Barack Obama requesting that the policy of denying Modi a visa be upheld. However, the veracity of some of the signatures has been called into question, as Sitaram Yechury and purported signatories have denied ever signing such a petition. In March 2014, when asked if Washington was ready to do business with Modi, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Nisha Biswal commented that "the United States has welcomed every leader (of India)", and "a democratically elected leader of India will be a welcome partner".
A report in April 2014 in the Sunday Guardian revealed that by the end of 2012, a reversal in foreign policy towards Modi by Obama had occurred.
Though BJP was in government as a coalition partner from 1998-2004, it could only put forward a moderate, secular, non-BJP personality like
Atal Bihari Vajpayee as a consensus-based prime ministerial candidate.
Absolute majority in the 2014 elections makes it possible for BJP to show their true colours. We'll see soon enough...
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